"But I get no satisfaction in hearing that someone may be in danger of losing their job over this. I would much prefer a look at why 'security' has been used to justify so many intrusions on our civil liberties, rather than fire a person who made a mistake."

nah - we're just gonna fire the idiot who wrote you a creepy note, then look up pictures of you on the internet and try to imagine what sort of faces you make when you use that vibrator later on this week.

what? don't look at me like that. you know I'm right.

The incident came just days after two former TSA screeners pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal $40,000 from a cash-laden bag that had been checked onto an American Airlines flight at Kennedy Airport.

WTF? Who the fark checks a suitcase full of cash post-911? Who the fark checks anything of value in the Age of the TSA?

And WTF to the screener, too. Protip - when you find the bag full of cash, you don't tell anyone. You just steal it, like you would a camera or jewelry or a nice bag or something. No one would think anything of you just stealing, for Elvis' sake, its the farking TSA. But no - you had to tell, and then cut someone in on the cash, who told, and on and on until there were enough people who knew about it to ensure one of them would talk when the owner complained.

Kreist - do we now have to come over there and teach you stupid muthafarkers how to steal from us??

It's clearly a violation of her privacy and the man/woman was rightly disciplined over it, but I honestly think I would have laughed it off if it had been me.

Weaver95: nah - we're just gonna fire the idiot who wrote you a creepy note, then look up pictures of you on the internet and try to imagine what sort of faces you make when you use that vibrator later on this week.

what? don't look at me like that. you know I'm right.

Get out of my head!!!

Now the article says she doesn't want someone fired for making a mistake.

When did mistake go from being something that "happened by accident that you mishandled or missed inadvertently thereby causing harm to something"........to "deliberate action showing the complete absence of any type of forethought if not outright proving evidence of outrageous stupidity?"

moothemagiccow: oooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllddddddddddd

No, it's not old. It's a followup to this thread (new window).

SamFlagg: Now the article says she doesn't want someone fired for making a mistake.

When did mistake go from being something that "happened by accident that you mishandled or missed inadvertently thereby causing harm to something"........to "deliberate action showing the complete absence of any type of forethought if not outright proving evidence of outrageous stupidity?"

So you don't believe in mistakes in judgement then?

We are all human and do stupid shiat all the time. That stupid shiat is called mistakes.

We are all human and do stupid shiat all the time. That stupid shiat is called mistakes. Sometimes mistakes constitute sexual harassment opening up your employer to a huge liability..

There's plenty of unemployed people looking for work, I bet many of them know how to behave professionally, whether they'll work for the peanuts the TSA offers is another question, but they exist.

itsdan: We are all human and do stupid shiat all the time. That stupid shiat is called mistakes. Sometimes mistakes constitute sexual harassment opening up your employer to a huge liability..

There's plenty of unemployed people looking for work, I bet many of them know how to behave professionally, whether they'll work for the peanuts the TSA offers is another question, but they exist.

Everyone is expendable and should be elated for peanuts. Hell, the next person should get peanuts minus one just to teach them all an abject lesson.

/voting enabled?

Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article a dildo, never your dildo.

The incident came just days after two former TSA screeners pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal $40,000 from a cash-laden bag that had been checked onto an American Airlines flight at Kennedy Airport.

We are being watched over by crooks and cronies. Sleep well.

I thought it was kind of funny. :( I would've laughed my ass off at a message like that. I don't understand the woman's outrage - how can you be that serious about yourself when you travel with vibrators in your luggage? Maybe the employee should have been reprimanded or reassigned, but I think firing them is a bit much, especially when you consider the costs to the taxpayer of training another person for the position.

watson.t.hamster: peasandcarrots: FTA: "Like all federal employees, this individual is entitled to due process and protected by the Privacy Act."

...as he's being fired from his Federal job of RUMMAGING THROUGH LUGGAGE.

Ow! I just dropped half a ton of irony on my foot.

/it's like ray-i-ain...

Ha hah . . . oh . . . that mad me sad.

/but at least they're keeping us safe from dildo bombs.

What about flying dildos (new window)? NSFW